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While Elena assures Lila and her daughters that she will not have a child with Nino, she admits that ever since she held Mirko, the child that Nino conceived with Silvia, she has desired his child.
Elena returns often to the neighborhood and tries to persuade her mother to see a doctor. Her mother refuses, saying that Elena is the one who is killing her. Elena discovers that Lila has become a major employer in the neighborhood, hiring her ex-husband Stefano Carraci’s brother Alfonso among others. Lila wants Elena to move back to the neighborhood.
Elena wants to go on a trip to the United States with Nino to mark the publication of her book there. Lila is delighted to take care of Dede and Elsa in her absence. Elena is certain that she is pregnant by the end of the trip. She is about to tell Lila when Lila announces her own pregnancy.
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